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Executive coach and business leader. I write about how to improve your leadership skills and impact.
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Today's article for leaders is about how you can make a difference - a tangible positive impact - as a leader, and how some of us are dirty cheats.

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/making-a-difference

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Making a Difference — Jon Mechan Coaching

This article is about the positive impact you can have as a leader - and why coaching is cheating…

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Today I wrote a pretty long piece about a bully and how leadership styles can be A Big Thing.

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/exploring-your-leadership-style

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Exploring Your Leadership Style — Jon Mechan Coaching

A story about a bully and how you can understand and explore different leadership styles.

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I suffered a terrible affliction last week - the dreaded man-flu.

But it put me in mind of how support structures can be very important in life and business.

I wrote about how you should find your people...

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/find-your-people

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Find Your People — Jon Mechan Coaching

I suffered a terrible affliction recently, and it reminded me of the importance of surrounding yourself with supportive communities.

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Change can be hard to spot if you observe it on a micro- or short-term basis. If you reflect over a longer period of time you can truly understand how far you've come. That's the subject of today's article.

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/whats-different

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What’s Different? — Jon Mechan Coaching

Long-term reflection can reveal interesting insights. This article delves into this topic and makes a suggestion for how you can create a reflective practice.

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A couple of weeks ago I talked about the fact that people don't quit jobs, they quit bosses.

Today I've written about how to be a boss that people don't want to quit.

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/how-to-be-the-boss-no-one-quits

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How to Be the Boss No-one Quits

People don’t quit their job, they quit their boss. Jon! You wrote about this last time! Don’t worry, I’m not really repeating myself. In fact, I owe you an apology. I did a little bit of a bait-and-switch last time. I wrote about how to quit your job gracefully. This time I want to take the perspective of a leader - how do you become the sort of boss that people don’t want to quit? There are a lot of things I could list out here, but really it boils down to two main factors, and I think to be su

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People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses.

Sometimes it's time to move on and take the opportunity to prosper elsewhere. Today's article is about how to do that whilst maintaining a positive mindset...and not burning any bridges. How to make a graceful exit...

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/how-to-make-a-graceful-exit

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How to Make a Graceful Exit

People don't quit their job, they quit their boss. At least according to 74% of respondents to a Gallup survey a few years ago, anyway. There are many reasons why someone might decide to leave a job. A bad boss is one of them. Poor management of the team or company. Misalignment with values. Too much work. Too little work. Boredom. Lack of progression. Better opportunities elsewhere. Better pay or conditions elsewhere. Whatever the reason, I think it's important to try to leave gracefully and wi

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This week's article is about how as a leader you can reinforce the culture that you want in your team. I hope you find this helpful!

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/setting-the-right-cultural-tone

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Setting the Right Cultural Tone

A man walked into a bar... Wait, we're not really doing that are we...? Bear with me... A while ago, I wrote about how you as a leader can define your organizational culture. Today I want to take that a step further and ensure you're maintaining the right tone on a day-to-day basis. I'm going to start with a story - originally from Michael Tager on a twitter thread here, which I'm paraphrasing for you below. A man walked into a bar for an afterwork beer. It was a bit of a dive - a crustpunk bar

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The topic of what to communicate and how, as a leader, came up recently. Today I've written a bit about that, and how to develop your leadership voice.

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/how-to-develop-your-leadership-voice

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How to Develop Your Leadership Voice

A client recently moved into a C-level role in a new organisation. They have a million and one things on their plate right now. One key issue is around communication - what, when, and how to communicate with their peers, stakeholders, and team. A challenge for many leaders as they climb to more senior roles is developing executive presence, or a leadership voice, rather than a lack of strategic ability. This can sometimes be perceived as a lack of ‘readiness’, and the best way to combat this is

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Wrote a little something about goal-setting today...mainly about how to choose an approach that is more resonant than some of the traditional approaches. And donuts.

https://www.jonmechan.com/post/approaching-goals-from-a-different-angle

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Approaching Goals from a Different Angle

As a leader you often have to consider the topic of goals, both for yourself and for your team. Frequently, however, they don't feel like something you want to do, more like something you have to do. That's because the way they're often implemented in a corporate context is clunky, uninspiring, and impersonal. They become a box-ticking exercise rather than being actually useful. A few months ago I wrote about themes rather than resolutions. One of the ways to support your themes is to use goals

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Ready or not, here it comes! The Coaching From Essence ebook will be published on Amazon tomorrow (the paperback will be available next week). It's already an Amazon bestseller.

This is your last chance to grab it for only .99¢. Don't wait. Begin before you're ready!

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